Wright returns to practice for Orange

Point guard Josh Wright has returned to practice with the Syracuse University basketball team.

SYRACUSE – Point guard Josh Wright has returned to practice with the Syracuse University basketball team.

The Thomas R. Proctor High School graduate has missed the Orange’s last four games, but practiced Monday and Tuesday, according to SU basketball sports information director Pete Moore.

Wright, the only senior scholarship player on the team, missed SU’s two exhibition games because of a sprained ankle, then played just four minutes in a season-opening victory over Siena. He was dressed but did not play against St. Joseph’s.

He was not in uniform for the Nov. 16 home game with Fordham and did not make the trip to New York City for the NIT Tipoff tournament. Boeheim said Wright was not feeling well and was at home for the Fordham game and the games in New York.

* SU announced Tuesday the signing of three players to National Letters of Intent – Mookie Jones, a 6-foot-6 forward from three-time state Class A champion Peekskill; Kris Joseph, a 6-7 forward from Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C. and James Southerland, a 6-7 forward from Bayside, N.Y. and Notre Dame Prep in Fitchburg, Mass.